Kent County Council has gone out to tender on behalf of a number of public sector organisations with a contract for water and sewerage services potentially worth up to £208 million.
The Environment Agency has issued a Prior Information Notice (PIN) in order to identify organisations interested in taking part in a Market Sounding Exercise before starting a formal procurement process for its Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM) capital programme worth a potential £1.5 billlion.
Northern Ireland Water has gone out to tender with a contract for a real-time operating system software package.
The public sector retail market in England and Wales is worth an estimated £960 million, according to the Crown Commercial Service.
Scottish Water has awarded a contract for the supply and installation of fixed standby generators worth an estimated £1.8 million.
Mott Macdonald has won a contract to provide United Utilities with project management consultancy services.
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs has gone out to tender with a contract for IT services, including consulting, software development, internet and support, worth an estimated £325 million.
United Utilities has awarded network modelling framework contracts worth up to £24 million in total to four companies.
South West Water has awarded a contract for CCTV and associated sewer inspection services worth an estimated £950,000.
Northern Ireland Water has gone out to tender with a framework contract for service reservoir and trunk main rehabilitation worth an estimated £35 million.
South West Water has hosted the first municipal trial of the Fournier Rotary Press in the UK, assessing its potential to improve sludge dewatering performance and support future biosolids standards.
Uniwater has acquired Hy-Ram Engineering, a specialist in tooling, products and hire for the water sector, based in Mansfield, England.
Enpure Ltd and Clean TeQ Water Ltd have announced a collaboration agreement to bring Clean TeQ Water's Moving Bed Ion Exchange-based nutrient removal technologies to water utilities across the UK.
Near-real-time microbial monitoring of wastewater discharge and bathing waters is now possible thanks to the BactoSense ID solution created by Swiss-based bNovate Technologies.